Lexicography in Scotland

History of Scottish Lexicography

A brief historical overview of lexicography in Scotland will appear here shortly. In the meantime, we offer a list of sources for further reading. Most of these focus on Scots-language dictionaries, but there is an extensive section on Gaelic lexicography, and a chapter on the Scottish contribution to English lexicography, in Scotland in Definition, listed below.

S. Rennie, ‘The Lexicography of Scots’, in International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography, ed. by P. Hanks and G.-M. de Schryver (Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2015), 1-18 [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_36-1]